Pierre Restany

Yves Klein

Fire at the Heart of the Void

132 pages, 32 color plates, ISBN 1-88214-564-X / 978-1-88214-564-5, Spring Publications

No one embraced color more radically than the French conceptual artist and "painter of the Void" Yves Klein (1928-1962) who, by leaping into the empty space of his blue monochromes, broke with every tradition of painting in ways that have yet to be fully appreciated.